Beyond tokenistic approaches: How can engaging with vulnerable groups shape the policy process?

In Defense of a Peripheral Epistemology: Exploring “Decolonial Cognitive Triggers” for Epistemic Disobedience in Urban Peripheries

“…Taking this reflection, we can argue how easy it is to "convert" by using language and approaches that seem to be progressive and transformative, but that do not actually enable a genuine conversation because they may be ignoring the preferred language codes, representations, space-time and thinking adopted by other groups. In policymaking, it can be observed in the timing of dialogue, that does not always enable genuine conversations and may end up with rushed (and at times tokenistic) approaches to "participation" or "co-production" (see, for example, the critique made by Paul and Villaman 2022;Mesa-Vélez 2019;Monno and Khakee 2012;Gilchrist 2006).…”